1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. I. Arabic in relation to other languages; 4. On the Importance of Arabic to General Linguistic Theory (by Comrie, Bernard); 5. Verbless Sentences in Arabic and Hebrew (by Eid, Mushira); 6. Guttural Phonology (by McCarthy, John); 7. Arabic Loanwords in Acehnese (by Al-Ahmadi Al-Harbi, Awwad Ahmad); 8. A Contrastive Study of Middle and Unaccusative Constructions in Arabic and English (by Mahmoud, Abdelgawad T.); 9. II. Grammatical Perspectives; 10. Epenthesis in Makkan Arabic: Unsyllabified consonants vs. degenerate syllables (by Abu-Mansour, Mahasen Hasan); 11. Computer Analysis of Arabic Morphology: A two-level approach with detours (by Beesley, Kenneth R.); 12. Causatives in Arabic (by Benmamoun, Elabbas); 13. III. Socio- and Psycholinguistic Perspectives; 14. Women, Men, and Linguistic Variation in the Arab World (by Walters, Keith); 15. Code-Switching and Linguistic Accommodation in Arabic (by Abu-Melhim, Abdel-Rahman); 16. Agrammatism in Arabic (by Safi-Stagni, Sabah); 17. Index